AMP PORN we don't see every day. Gerry McAvoy's Stramp Bass amp content

[chilipeppermaniac]

I was watching this Rory clip and noticed Gerry was playing amps I had never seen. STRAMP Amps. SO, here I go googling info about them and find this on Reverb.com. I noticed more sites that have info about the Stramps, so I plan to peruse them when I finish working today. Thought I would open this up for your interest and own experiences.

Stramp 2200 200 Watt 1974 Marshall Major Ex Rory Gallagher Band | Reverb

Here is an ultra rare Stramp 200. These German beasts in their 100 watt form were the amp of choice for Rory Gallagher and Leslie West for a while, but this one is decidedly Major-esque Really powerful with a lot of grunt, like a super lead with more girth. A lot of that has to do with the Y...

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Here is a 2100A in Red/Orangish tolex



100 Watt Marshall Superlead-clone Ca. 1971 Stramp 2100A - Made in Germany. With its 4x EL-34 and 3x ECC83 tubes, this amplifier was a clone of the Marshall 1959 Superlead. Very good condition and sounds GREAT!
Rory Gallagher and Lesly West of Mountain where famous Stramp-users, amongs other customers like John Entwistle from the Who, Jack Bruce, Gary McAvoy etc. Really rare and hard to find.

 

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A little Rory with Taste

 

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There is also a Stramp AMP and Speakers page on Facebook

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[ivan H]

Cool find Chilli, thanks for posting. Looking at that 200 Watter, I see Piher resistors & Wima coupling caps (one orange drop) on early type printed circuit board, all very nice. Even though the board is quite thick, I dont like that they've mounted the four KT88's directly to it. Other than that it looks like a monster amp. Cheers

 

[CabanaBoy]

Rory Gallagher and cool amps...
I'm sure I've had to have seen or heard of Stramp before, but at the moment I'd have to go with first time hearing about 'em...

 

[eSGEe]

those dirty Stramps!

 

[stringtree]

They had midi back in 1970????

 

[Chubbles]

Hubba hubba! Check out the size of those tubes!

 

[stringtree]

Hubba hubba! Check out the size of those tubes!

Big Iron too! :dood:

 

[67plexi]

I never have seen one until now

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

Cool find Chilli, thanks for posting. Looking at that 200 Watter, I see Piher resistors & Wima coupling caps (one orange drop) on early type printed circuit board, all very nice. Even though the board is quite thick, I dont like that they've mounted the four KT88's directly to it. Other than that it looks like a monster amp. Cheers

Ivan, did you pull up the Reverb link and see all the pics inside and out?
SOme pretty nice shots.

 

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[steveb63]

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If those tubes didn't bring a smile to my face in milliseconds. :dood:

Wish we had a tube emoji., really cool pic.s, and Rory sure had some groovy effects there. Lol.

Thanks for posting these, awesome.